Academic Continuity is the institution’s ability to maintain essential functions and prevent interruptions to mission-critical services during and after unpredictable, disastrous events such as natural disasters, fires, disease outbreaks, cyberattacks, and other external threats.
Instructors may wish to consider:
- Designing their courses in multiple teaching modalities (asynchronous, synchronous, hybrid)
- Utilizing Learning Management System capabilities
EdTech curated a list of resources that help faculty maintain instructional continuity in cases of emergency disruptions. EdTech will continue to ensure that all of our constituents have access to the necessary technology and support that may be needed for multi-modal course delivery.
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- Faculty
- Faculty Professional Development
- Microlearning
- Online Teaching Certificate Programs
- Support
Microlearning: Using Backward Design to Rethink Your Course
At Hostos, departments provide instructors with learning outcomes or course descriptions published in the course catalog. While these outcomes provide a strong foundation, applying the principles of Backward Design helps align your course goals, assessments, and instructional activities with these outcomes. This alignment allows you to work within the framework of the senate-approved objectives while delivering a well-structured, student-centered, and [...]
Applied Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS Now Enrolling! 2024-2025 Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Online Training and Campus Collaborative The CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy is offering an asynchronous training course that demonstrates UDL guidelines through examples of course design, content, tools, activities, research, assessments, and software demonstrations when applicable. This training will cover the newly updated UDL Version 3.0 guidelines. {{ vc_btn: title=Register&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23002f6d&outline_custom_hover_background=&outline_custom_hover_text=%23e16000&shape=square&i_icon_fontawesome=fas+fa-user-plus&css_animation=bounceInDown&css=&add_icon=true&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fforms.office.com%252Fpages%252Fresponsepage.aspx%253Fid%253Ds_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2MPC-mC7QK9GmJ8kywgnm4dUOUhKRk00WU4wRU9RRjdQNkdITkFFUDlERy4u%2526route%253Dshorturl%7Ctarget%3A_blank }} [...]
Workshops – Faculty
Instructor-led Workshops Instructor-led workshops are live, online sessions that offer real-time interaction with faculty members. These training sessions provide hands-on learning opportunities and allow faculty to apply what they have learned in a dynamic and interactive environment. TBD
Recap – Starting the Semester Strong with Blackboard
Knowing how to navigate Blackboard essential tasks is an advantage because they allow instructors to copy course content from previous semester into the current one and with little modifications, the course would be ready in a breeze. If teaching multiple sections of the same course, merging them into one allows faculty to concentrate in only one course instead of many. [...]
Hostos Teaching Institute
The Hostos Teaching Institute is a professional development program developed by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Academic Affairs to promote continuous improvement and the advancement of faculty pedagogical approaches in order to foster teaching excellence and innovation.
Maximizing Adobe Professional for Faculty Portfolios
By Ana Marjanovic, Instructional Designer & LMS Admin, EdTech Have you ever felt overwhelmed while trying to compile numerous documents in various formats, scattered on your hard drive into a single file? It almost feels like a cluttered desk where you can't find the pen you just put down a moment ago. And let's not even talk about the painstaking [...]
Interactive Tools to Engage Students with Content Recap
Student engagement has suffered significantly as students appear disconnected and unresponsive to faculty inquiries. Some instructors are frustrated because they have tried various philosophies and still do not receive the desired motivation from their students. However, there are numerous tools and apps available to assist faculty in engaging and motivating students, including the use of Groups, Discussion Boards, Journals, Blogs, [...]
Utilizing Polling Software as Engagement Tools
Because Polling tools are simple to use, they are an excellent and versatile way of engaging students in various class activities. Polling questions can be created on the fly without taking too much time to set up. They enable instructors to collect information about students' performance, and the results can be used to tailor the content or for review purposes. [...]